Re: make allyesconfig i386 build failure with next-20150122 (caused by fb_agm1264k-fl driver)

[Guenter Roeck]

On 01/26/2015 02:46 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 01:59:59PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:10:33PM -0700, Jim Davis wrote:
> > > make ARCH=i386 allyesconfig fails with
> > >
> > > drivers/staging/built-in.o: In function `reset':
> > > (.text+0x2ae89d): multiple definition of `reset'
> > > drivers/isdn/built-in.o:(.text+0x185dc2): first defined here
> > > make[1]: *** [drivers/built-in.o] Error 1
> >
> > Culprit:
> >
> > commit b2ebd4be6fa1d2329b63531b044f9e25474981cb
> > Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Wed Dec 31 10:11:10 2014 +0100
> >
> >      staging: fbtft: add fb_agm1264k-fl driver
> >
> > A global function named 'reset' isn't really a good idea.
> >
> > Not that the global function with the same name in the isdn code
> > is better ;-).
>
> Agreed, the fbtft code is now fixed.  Patches to fix the isdn code would
> be gladly accepted as well :)

Did you have a look into the isdn code ? It will need someone
with a lot of spare time to clean this code up.

Guenter

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